Bill Sharp Research Collection, 1942-1983, bulk dates 1974-1983
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Civilian Conservation Corps (U.S.)
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The Civilian Conservation Corps, a federal agency, was created as part of the New Deal in 1935. From the description of Civilian Conservation Corps photograph collection [graphic]. 1936. (Santa Fe Public Library). WorldCat record id: 38548415 On March 31, 1933, congress passed the Emergency Conservation Work Act, creating the Civilian Conservation Corps. On April 5, the president appointed Robert Fechner of Tennessee as Director of Emergency Conservation Work. Fechner, a vic...
Sharp, Billy B., 1929-
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Bill Sharp enrolled in the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) in 1936, where he first joined CCC Company 1999, followed by Company 1936. Sharp spent two years in the Montana CCC before leaving in July of 1938 to join the US Navy. In 1972 Mr. Sharp decided to compile a history of the CCC and spent the next twenty years of his life communicating with ex-CCC members and their families, collecting letters, stories, mementos, photographs and other information on the CCC camps throughout the state of M...
